If sculpture is to be considered drawing, if a mark made by anything that
makes a mark by anything that takes a mark is drawing,then this is a very
broad ranging research subject we are discussing.
A bullet makes a mark and a body takes a mark, but the victim would hardly
agree that he / she had just been drawn on! (With all respect to the little
girl, who is obviously bright and using her lateral mind.)
In most peoples minds drawing means to make generally linear marks on some
surface , and painting seems to infer that there is a broader covering of a
surface with some wet / viscous media (or one that digitally duplicates it).
Sculpture implies building up or manipulating in 3 dimensions, even if its
virtual.
And all of these, rightly or wrongly, imply that one does this to make the
beautifully superflous thing called art.
For drawing to be painting and sculpture and photography and whatever else
one makes art with seems to defeat the purpose of our research discussion
subject.
David Stewart Lovegrove
Dip Fine Art (Julian Ashton Art school)
Master of Arts (Queensland College of Art, Griffith Uni)
Visual Artist, Illustrator, Designer
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